Floyd, who earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from USC, is a Florence surgeon and veteran member and former chair of the University’s Board of Trustees. He is a clinical professor of surgery at USC’s School of Medicine in Columbia and is an associate professor of surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Gray, the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology, is a pioneering researcher in bioinorganic chemistry and inorganic photochemistry.

Valenti is the third chair and chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America Inc. He was a wartime bomber pilot, advertising agency founder, political consultant, White House special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, and industry trade representative.

The University will award more than 3,400 degrees on the Columbia campus, including four associate degrees, 1,853 baccalaureate degrees, 1,081 master’s degrees, 19 graduate certificates, 48 graduate specialist’s degrees, and 17 PharmD. degrees.

Candidates for baccalaureate, master's, and professional degrees from the Moore School of Business, College of Engineering and Information Technology, College of Mass Communications and Information Studies, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, Arnold School of Public Health, and College of Social Work will receive their degrees at 3 p.m. May 9.

Candidates for baccalaureate, master's, and professional degrees from the College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management; College of Education; School of the Environment; College of Liberal Arts; School of Music; College of Science and Mathematics; Fort Jackson Military Base Program; Interdisciplinary Programs; and the Honors College will receive their degrees at 10:30 a.m. May 10.

The School of Law will award 203 degrees at commencement ceremonies at 10 a.m. May 9 on the Horseshoe. Robert MacCrate, senior counsel to Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City, will be the speaker. In case of rain, the ceremony will be held in the Koger Center.

The School of Medicine will award 73 degrees at commencement ceremonies at 12:30 p.m. May 9 in the Koger Center. Maj. Gen. Leonard M. Randolph Jr., acting deputy assistant secretary of defense for health plan administration and chief operating officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Health Affairs, will be the speaker.

The Graduate School will award 145 doctoral degrees at its doctoral hooding and commencement ceremony at 8:30 a.m. May 10 in the Koger Center. Diane Stephens, a professor in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education, will be the speaker.

Commencement exercises at USC’s other campuses follow:

• USC Lancaster will award 106 associate degrees at 7 p.m. May 1 in the Bundy Auditorium of the James Bradley Arts and Sciences Building. Walter Edgar, the Claude Henry Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies and the George Washington Distinguished Professor of History and director of USC’s Institute of Southern Studies, will be the speaker.

• USC Beaufort will award 44 associate degrees at 6 p.m. May 2 in the USC Beaufort Performing Arts Center. John M. McCardell Jr., president of Middlebury College, will be the speaker.

• USC Salkehatchie will award 78 associate degrees at 7 p.m. May 5 in the Conference Center. Thaddeus J. Bell, associate dean for diversity in the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, will be the speaker.

• USC Union will award 43 associate degrees at 7 p.m. May 6 in the auditorium of the campus’ main building. Judge William R. Byars Jr. (retired), director of the S.C. Department of Juvenile Justice, will be the speaker. Byars is the former director of the Children’s Law Office in the USC School of Law.

• USC Sumter will award 47 associate degrees at 7 p.m. May 7 in the Nettles Building Auditorium. Edward J. Ludwig, chair, president, and CEO of Becton, Dickinson, and Company in Franklin Lakes, N.J., will be the speaker.

• USC Aiken will award 29 associate degrees, 249 baccalaureate degrees, and eight master’s degrees at 7 p.m. May 8 in the Student Activities Center. Mark Brady Templeton, president and chief executive officer of Citrix Systems Inc., will be the speaker and receive an honorary doctor of business administration degree. Livio Orazio Valentini, an international artist, will receive an honorary doctor of fine arts degree.

• USC Spartanburg will award 36 associate degrees, 394 baccalaureate degrees, and five master’s degrees at 7 p.m. May 10 on the quad behind the Administration Building. Catherine Bertini, under-secretary-general for management for the United Nations, will be the speaker and will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.

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